God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
BOB GOFFGod wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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